Re: [charmod-norm] Does ZWJ/ZWNJ affect meaning?

@johnwcowan  That's possibly true, save that that people are 
frequently lazy or impeded in typing. There is a difference in 
perceived code points in the examples you use (even if, say, the 
Latin/Cyrillic pair look the same, they are neither the same code 
points nor the same perceived characters). Users would not expect to 
find Latin words typing Cyrillic letters, no matter what their shape.

I'll admit that I was being clever in my locution, but I was also 
careful to use the ZWNJ-free string as the search term. If you do a 
"find" on this page in your browser, typing "die" finds "bodies" and 
(unless you do something about matching case), typing "DIE" finds 
"bodies" too. Customers expect matches to be more permissive under 
certain circumstances (such as find) as compared to algorithmic access
 methods (where rigor is called for).

We also suggest elsewhere in the document that when users expend more 
effort on input that their input should be taken into account. If I 
type the ZWNJ (or VS or whatever) in as the "find" term, only strings 
actually containing ZWNJ et al should be found.

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